UPDATE: The Disappearance of Kimberly Moreau (Maine)

Just before midnight on May 10, 1986, 17-year-old Kimberly Moreau walked out the door of her home in Jay, Maine, never to be seen again.

2025 marks 39 years that the family of Kimberly Moreau has been searching for answers. No matter how much time has passed, their minds and hearts always come back to the same night.

As her father, Richard Moreau, explained, “Every day, I go to the post office. I go there every day hoping and praying that we finally get an envelope that gives us very precise directions to where we can get Kim, where we can find her remains. Bring her home. It has been 39 years now. It will be on May 10th, 39 years. And it seems like it just started yesterday.”

I’ve spent a lot of time with the Moreau family since we first met in the spring of 2021. I’ve covered Kim’s case in a two-part series here on Dark Downeast, and I recommend starting there before continuing with this update episode. I’ll link everything on the website and in the show description for you. But if it’s been a while since you’ve heard the details of Kim’s case, here is what we know.

“On May 10th, 1986, Kim went out with three other people,” Mr. Moreau began. “She left the house with Rhonda Breton, who’s now deceased. They walked down to Livermore Falls and they were down there by the park and they see a brand new car go by.”

It was supposed to be the night of Kim’s high school junior prom, but she decided not to go. She and her boyfriend had gotten into a fight the day before, so Kim called off their prom plans in favor of hanging out with Rhonda and seeing where the night took them. They were hanging out in a park when a white Pontiac Trans Am drove up. It belonged to 25-year old Darren Joudrey. The other person in the car that night was Brian Enman.

As far as the Moreaus know, Kim and Rhonda rode around with Brian and Darren that night, possibly drinking, maybe drugs were somewhere in the mix. It’s believed they made other stops and saw other people over the course of the evening, too. What’s known for sure is that Kim arrived back home later that night. She was there for a few minutes and said goodbye to her sister Karen before walking out the door around 11 o’clock. That was the last time her family ever saw her.

When Mr. Moreau spoke to Brian Enman himself about that night, Brian claimed he later dropped Kim off about a half mile down the street from her house. He said that Kim was upset about the argument with her boyfriend so she wanted to walk the rest of the way home. Mr. Moreau didn’t believe that story when he first heard it from Brian’s own mouth. And he still doesn’t believe it now.

As of this episode’s recording, Brian Enman and Darren Joudrey have not been charged with any crimes as it relates to Kim’s disappearance. No one has. But the Moreau family has held firm in their suspicion that these two men and those close to the two men have more information about what happened on the night of May 10, 1986.

An arrest and charges and prosecution is secondary to the Moreau family’s ultimate goal: They just want to bring Kim home.

Mr. Moreau, along with Kim’s sisters Diane and Karen, have spent years running down their own leads, conducting independent searches, and trying unique strategies to generate new information in Kim’s case. Since you last heard from the Moreaus on Dark Downeast, they’ve rented a box at the local post office. Anyone with information about Kim or the location of her remains can send a letter to Kim’s Justice at P.O. Box #2 Jay, Maine 04239.

One of the original methods they’ve used to keep Kim’s name and face in the public eye are posters, affixed to telephone poles along the streets in Jay, Livermore Falls, and surrounding communities. In fact, those posters kept Kim’s case top of mind for the new primary detective on her case, long before he was even assigned.

Meet the Detectives
Detective Mike Fitzmorris came to the Maine State Police from the Oxford County Sheriff’s Office in 2023.

“I was promoted to detective in December of 2024, and I got a call this past January from my sergeant who simply asked me if I was familiar with Kim Moreau. When I worked at the sheriff’s office, I patrolled the Canton-Peru area for pretty much my whole career over there,” Detective Fitzmorris continued, “So I had seen the posters and I think when you’re in that area, it’s one of those things of yeah, of course I know who she is and I get the uh, well, congratulations, you’re the new primary on the case.”

Can we just recognize for a second the power of an 8-and-a-half by 11-inch piece of paper paired with some brightly colored tape? Mr. Moreau has been putting those posters up for decades now. At first, they were one of the most accessible tools for him given he worked at the old paper mill in town. Now, they’re an everpresent symbol of the family’s dedication to finding Kim.

Friends and family join Mr. Moreau in the annual pilgrimage to the telephone poles to replace what’s been damaged by time and weather, and the ones that have been intentionally torn down, because that’s happening, too. There’s significant expense and physical effort required to get the posters up year after year…But he keeps doing it. He’ll do anything to make sure his daughter is not forgotten.

Also overseeing Kim’s case is Detective Corporal Michael Chavez with the Maine State Police Unsolved Homicide Unit.

The conversations on and off record that day between the family and the two detectives and myself had an entirely different tone from all my previous meetings with the Moreau family. Even with the emotional moments and the tears that always come when the Moreaus reflect on everything they’ve been through, there was undeniable optimism in the room coming from all sides of the table.

“And now we’re very fortunate to have these two detectives that’s sitting with us right now working this case. I feel a lot more confident with these two gentlemen that we have one of the best opportunities that we may ever have of bringing her home,” Mr. Moreau said with confidence in his voice.

A lot has happened in the investigation since 2021. Searches, deaths, discoveries, psychics. Let’s get into it. This update continues on Dark Downeast. Press play to hear the full episode wherever you get your podcasts.